Hub Architecture

Chronomancy is not a prediction market. It is a financial layer that wraps existing prediction markets with structured products — insurance, early exit, reputation — that those markets cannot provide natively.

The Hub Concept

Every prediction market treats time as a passive countdown toward resolution. Chronomancy treats time as an active, tradeable resource.

The Chronomancy Hub sits between users and the prediction markets they already use. It reads positions from external platforms (Polymarket, Azuro, Kalshi), computes the user’s Chrono Score from their track record, and exposes a menu of financial modules the user can activate on any open position.

graph TD
    subgraph External Markets
        PM[Polymarket<br/>CTF positions on Polygon]
        AZ[Azuro<br/>ERC-721 bet NFTs]
        KA[Kalshi<br/>SPL tokens via DFlow]
    end

    subgraph Chronomancy Hub
        CS[Chrono Score Engine<br/>Always-on reputation layer]
        RW[REWIND<br/>Position Insurance]
        FF[FAST-FORWARD<br/>Early Exit Vault]
        LP[LOOP<br/>Seasonal Epochs]
        EL[Elo + Wizard Duels<br/>Competitive Layer]
    end

    PM --> CS
    AZ --> CS
    KA --> CS
    CS --> RW
    CS --> FF
    CS --> LP
    CS --> EL
    User([User Wallet]) --> PM
    User --> AZ
    User --> KA
    User --> CS

Play 1 vs Play 2

The protocol has two deployment modes:

Play 1 — Features on a native platform. Powers are baked into Kekius prediction market as native features. Faster to build, direct GTM via existing community. Proves the concept.

Play 2 — Meta-protocol wrapping any market. Powers become stand-alone financial products: insurance, early exit, and reputation infrastructure that sits on top of Polymarket, Azuro, and Kalshi. No need to build a prediction market from scratch — the protocol is parasitic on existing liquidity.

These are not mutually exclusive. Play 1 is the proof-of-concept; Play 2 is the protocol play. The $TIMEMACHINE token powers both.

Module Architecture

Each module is:

• Pluggable — can be activated independently on any open position
• Composable — modules interact in designed ways (e.g., REWIND + FAST-FORWARD have cross-product economics via Chrono Score bands)
• Reputation-gated — the Chrono Score engine runs as always-on infrastructure, and module pricing responds to reputation tier

Module	Type	Phase
REWIND	Position insurance	Phase 2
FAST-FORWARD	Early exit vault	Phase 1
LOOP	Seasonal epochs + capital reset	Phase 0
SLOW	Resolution deadline extension	Future
FREEZE	Trading halt	Future
FORK	Conditional market branches	Future

The $TIMEMACHINE Token

$TIMEMACHINE ($TM) is the utility token powering all time mechanics. It is:

• Burned to activate powers (SLOW, FREEZE, FORK)
• Staked into vaults to earn yield from insurance premiums and FF spreads
• Held by reputation-tier users to unlock discount multipliers

The token price becomes a meta-indicator of how much “temporal uncertainty” exists across all markets.

Related:

• Connected Markets — integration details for Polymarket, Azuro, Kalshi
• User Journey — how a user moves through the hub
• Build Roadmap — what ships in each phase